CES 2011: Splashtop Ports Its Remote Desktop iPad App To Android
TechWeb's Gina Smith catches up with the folks from Splashtop who've taken the remote desktop app they built for the iPad and have ported it over to Android . Now users of Android-based phones/ tablets can remotely view their PC/Mac desktops.InformationWeek
Powerbag Lets You Charge Your Phone When You TravelCheck out BYTE's review of Powerbag, a laptop bag that lets your charge your gadgets.
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Sponsored Content: E2 Interview: Simplifying IT ArchitectureSteve Felice, president and chief commercial officer of Dell, tells us about customers' main priorities, which include creating a simpler, more agile, more scalable architecture.
Sponsored Content: E2 Interview: Datacenters Enabling Business TransformationDell's Gaurav Chand says that for the first time ever datacenter technology is truly enabling all kinds of organizations to transform their business and achieve new objectives.
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The Valley View Monologue: The Funny Things About ITYou shouldn't take everything in technology seriously. Valley View host Fritz Nelson makes a punchline out of everything from Citrix VDI-in-a-box to the BlackBerry Playbook to Microsoft Azure, and then some.
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Valley View: DotNetNuke's Commercial Open Source CMSDotNetNuke CMO Mitch Bishop joins David Berlind and Fritz Nelson as a surprise guest on Valley View, and talks about the company's commercial Open Source CMS product.
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Inpris Not-So-Impressive Gesture-Based Tablet InputUsers have struggled to adapt to various ways to input data (type e-mail, edit documents) on phones and tablets -- virtual keyboards, haptics, sounds and so on. Inpris thinks the answer is in gestures. Interesting concept, but we're not sold.
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ARM Demos Next Gen Mobile PerformanceARM is the power behind almost every mobile device on the market. It licenses its architecture and chip cores to the big mobile chip players (Qualcomm, TI, NVidia, and more). We got demos of some of the performance coming in the next year or so.
Mobile Device Management Debate: Mobile Iron Vs. Good TechnologyMobile device management is a hot topic, as IT tries to get a handle on the influx of mobile phones and tablets end users are bringing into enterprise environments. Two of the industry leaders go head-to-head in a debate about the right approach.
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